title: American Catholic nursing. An historical analysis.
abstract: This study analyzes the nursing activities of religious sister nurses as spiritual agents of care during wartime, in railroad and mining centers, and in cities in the United States in the 19th century. This is a story about the workings of religion, gender, social class, ethnicity, and nursing. The sisters' work demonstrates how an analysis of professional nursing is incomplete without an understanding of the roles that a number of Catholic religious women took in reaching out to both Catholics and non-Catholics in the United States.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4217, USA. wallbm@nursing.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Barbra Mann
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Wall
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D006676:History of Nursing; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000266:history*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D014481:United States